Triple

T2632753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jonah’s Gourd Vine E59671 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Buddy Pearson
John Buddy Pearson is the charismatic but deeply flawed protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Jonah’s Gourd Vine," whose rise and fall trace themes of love, betrayal, and spiritual struggle in the early 20th-century Black South.
E284173 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Buddy Pearson | Statement: [Jonah’s Gourd Vine, mainCharacter, John Buddy Pearson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buddy Pearson
Context triple: [Jonah’s Gourd Vine, mainCharacter, John Buddy Pearson]
  • A. David Nelson
    David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
  • B. David Nelson
    David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • C. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • D. Frank Lubey
    Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
  • E. John Paxton
    John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Buddy Pearson
Triple: [Jonah’s Gourd Vine, mainCharacter, John Buddy Pearson]
Generated description
John Buddy Pearson is the charismatic but deeply flawed protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Jonah’s Gourd Vine," whose rise and fall trace themes of love, betrayal, and spiritual struggle in the early 20th-century Black South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buddy Pearson
Target entity description: John Buddy Pearson is the charismatic but deeply flawed protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Jonah’s Gourd Vine," whose rise and fall trace themes of love, betrayal, and spiritual struggle in the early 20th-century Black South.
  • A. David Nelson
    David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
  • B. David Nelson
    David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • C. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • D. Frank Lubey
    Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
  • E. John Paxton
    John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8c8d32c819081fc89b91217ed54 completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af90a996188190b3a83a31e69d09ef completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9172ba248190bbc68a00b43d9b44 completed March 10, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af9253953c8190a8e18c92d66263cc completed March 10, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.